The Republican journal., 1887-01-06
Literary News AMI Notes.

Literary News AMI Notes.
Our Little Ones for January is a holiday
number, with Christmas, New Years and
Thanksgiving articles and the usual beautiful
illustrations.
Rev. Theodore Gerrishs new book, "Life in
the Worlds Wonderland" is out, and Is being
delivered to subscribers in the western part Of
the State.
Mr.. Gladstone has written for the January
number of the Nineteenth Century an article
entitled "Locksley Hall and the Jubilee" The
article is a criticism of the poem by the light of
events of the past fifty years.
Christmas time, is especially dedicated to To-
bogganning. Practical advice is given regard
ing the cost of toboggans, how to make them
yourself and how to construct slides. There
are more than a dozen handsome illustrations
to this one article alone, by Kelly, Sandman and
| others.
The publishers of General Logan's book,
"The Great Conspiracy" have received a letter
from W. b. Taylor, private and confidential
secretary of Gen. Logan, in which he says that
| the receipts from the sale of that book will be
about the only legacy left Mrs Logan. and sug-
gesting that if this fact could be made known
to the public the patriotic impulses OF CRATE
her beyond want. ''Knowing Mrs. Logan's
| circumstances as well as do adds the Gener-
ais secretary, may beg of you to take imme-
diate steps to place this information before the
public
| With the first number in January, LttelFs
Living Age enters upon its one hundred ana
seventy-second volume. 1t is a magazine whose
value constantly increases as the field of foreign
| periodical literature Widens and it has become
IOtiISIpnS3ht,
The first weekly number of the new year has
| the following table Of contents: Mobs and Kew
olutions, Fortnightly Review; a Secret lnheri-
lance, by +. l.. Farjeon. English Illustrated
Magazine; Mrs. John Taylor of Norwich. Mac
milan: A Siege Baby, by the author of "Boot-
| les Baby etc. English Illustrated Magazine;
France As 1t Is and Was, Government and So
ciety, by Partisan, National Review; Moham-
| mechanism in Central Africa, Contemporary
Review: A Pilgrimage to Selbornc. Leisure
| Hour: together with choice poetry. etc. This.
the first number of the new volume. is a good
one with which to begin a subscription. For
| ffty-two numbers of siNty-four large pages
| each Cor more than $500 pages YEAR, the sub
scription price (SSl is low while for 5000 the
publishers offer TO send any one of the Ameri-
can $500 monthiies or weeklies with The Liv-
ing Age for year, both postpaid. littell 4
| Co., Boston. are the publishers.
The colored plate in the New Years number
of the Art Amateur, ''Marguerites. is charnl-
ing rendering by Edith Scanncll, of the always
popular theme,-a lovely child with daisies.
| The number also gives a beautiful decorative
head, by Ellen Welby; pleasing design of
| children dancing. for piano front; one of hol-
| ly for wood-carvng, two for chasuble orna-
| mentation, six for does, and two for china
painting (black alder berries and leaves for a
! jar and chrysanthenums fora pane), besides a
large decorative study of ivy. and a page of
monographs. There is a useful article on land
scape painting; the series on fruit painting in
| oils is continued, and a new series on portrait
| painting in the same medium is begun. together
with one on china painting. Another new fea-
| ture is Talks with Artists the first of which,
on 1.-The Life Glass; should be read by every
ambitious art student. The exhibitions of the
| National Academy and the American Art As
sociaton receive due notice and there is an in
| terestng illustrated account of Paul Bau,lrv.
the eminent French decorative artist. The >us-
gestive articles on the simple decoration of I'M
| adorned city apartments are continued, and the
| needleWork department is richly filled, church
ve>tments receiving particular attention 1t is
quite evident from this January number that
The Art Amateur for 1887 will be more than
ever indispensable to all practical art lovers
and art students. Price 30 cents. 81 ii year
Montague Marks. Publisher, % Union Square.
New York.
The Custodian of the United states Court
| House and Pos Office budin. in New York
displayed. without waiting for orders. the tay
| at half-mast when Hubert o. Thompson died.
but when Gen. Logan died that functionary re-
fused to put ont the flags unless Secretary Man
ming issued formal order.
Captain Charles ii. Speck of Portland, Me-,
a promising young >hipmaster, died at Rosario.
Argentine Republic. on Nov. .. He was in
command of the brig Ysidora Rionda. and it
was his first voyage as captain. He leaves a
widow and two young children.
100 Doses One Dollar is true only of Hoods
| Sarsalarilla and it is an unanswerabe argument
as to strength and economy
He was a travelling printer, and, being out of
employment he hired himself out to farmer.
One day the farmer said: 81 want You to set that
hen'' GLOW do you want me to set her scd:"
Carriers Little Liver Pills must not be confound
ed with common Cath'rtic or Purgatve Pills as
they entirely unlike them every respect. one
trial will prove their superiority.
During Queen Victora's recent nineteen DAYS
stay at Bamoral Castle it rtine'i constantly. When
it wasn't raining outside Victoria was regning in
side.
Doctor Yourself
and save money, and perhaps your life. Send three
?.cent stamps to pay postage to A. p or'iway y
mann's great Medical Work, 100 pages, elegant
colored plates. 2wl
The gentleman who is lecturing on GLOW to Get
Ahead is supposed to have been ont with the boys
Oh llc night Oh tnc July Iat Is an CX
cellent way to get Il "head' we've been told.
HALE'S HONEY is the best Cough Cure 25, Soc 81.
GLENNS SULPHUR SOAP heals and hcau,ics CSC
GERMAN CORN REMOVER kills Corr,s s Bunions &c
HILLS HAIR g. WHISPER DYE-Black & Brown Soc
PIXIES TOOTHACHE DROPS cure in Minute, Csc
DEANS RHEUMATIC PILLS are sure cure, Soc
lyric
"See here, Tom it looks as if you were irving to
fnI fiV-1t fha sf,f1s n1tl
tell the truth, am trying to rid her of weeds.''